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W by do I have to be Jewish?"
a young girl asks Irena
Sendler. "What if I want
to be something else? I don't like to be
hated by everybody."
Assured that not everyone hates her,
the young girl remains unconvinced:
"Yes, it's true. What did we [Jews] ever
do?"
This is one of several poignant
moments that raise the Hallmark
Hall of Fame's The Courageous Heart
of Irena Sendler far above the typical
movie of the week. A true story about
a Polish Catholic woman who risked
her own life to rescue Jewish children
from the Warsaw Ghetto, it airs 9 p.m.
Sunday, April 19, on CBS.
It's 1941. There are 440,000 Jews
confined behind the Warsaw Ghetto's
10-foot walls; hundreds die of starva-
tion and disease every day. Sendler
(Anna Paquin), an employee of
Warsaw's social services department,
used that cover to get into the ghetto,
each time bringing a little food, an
article of clothing, occasionally man-
aging to get a child out.
She hears what the Nazis have
planned and tries to warn her Jewish
friends. They fail to grasp the unfath-
omable, but Sendler believes in the
Nazis' potential for evil and feels
guilty because she doesn't do more. "I
thought I was doing all I could, but the
truth is I'm doing nothing. One child is
not enough?'
So she sets up a system to smuggle
infants and children out of the ghetto
and into homes and convents of sym-
pathetic Polish Christians. But some of
the Jewish parents don't want to part
with their children; others refuse to

believe their lives are
in danger; and there
are some afraid their
children will be con-
verted out of the faith.
Ultimately, with the cooperation of
Zagota, the children's division of the
Polish Underground, Irena is able to
smuggle out 2,500 children — none
of whom was betrayed. She kept the
names of each of the children on slips
of paper in jars she buried in a hiding
place.
Irena was arrested after a member
of her underground gave her up while
being tortured. But though both her
legs were broken, Irena never revealed
anything. She was due to be executed,
but guards were bribed and she
escaped.
She continued to work with Zagota
until the end of the war.
In the mid-1960s, organizations
such as the Jewish Foundation for the
Righteous recognized her work and
began providing her with financial
assistance. She was nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 and died
last year at the age of 98.
The cast — including Goran Visnjic
as a Jewish friend Irena met in college
and falls in love with, and Marcia Gay
Harden as her mother — is uniformly
excellent. The film itself works on
many levels: as a tearjerker (it's hard
to keep emotions in check when a
group of orphans walk off to their
deaths hand in hand, singing), as a
film about that rare breed of people
who are willing to stand up for what is
right regardless of the danger and as a
reminder of how dangerous it can be
to blindly label a people.

Curt Schleier
Schleier is editor in chief of

tvsoundoff.com and filmsoundoff.com .

The Courageous Heart of Irena
Sendler airs 9 p.m. Sunday, April

19, on CBS.

